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<p>The Chula Vista City Council voted Tuesday to permanently remove a statue of Christopher Columbus that once stood at the corner of Discovery Park but was removed last year after repeated attacks of vandalism raised concerns over the monument.</p>

San Diego can be a model for reform including comprehensive homelessness programs to treat people like they deserve to be treated; like neighbors.

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<p>The federal Department of Homeland Security will stop using two immigration jails that have that have been accused of mistreating detained undocumented immigrants.</p>

<p>DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that Biden Administration will cancel contracts for the use of the two jails, one in Georgia run by a local Sheriff’s Department and one in Massachusetts run by a private company. </p>

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<p>Chula Vista politician John McCann used a legal defense fund to recoup legal fees he owed from a 2014 defamation lawsuit he filed – and he appears to have violated state and local election laws by using a legal defense fund to file a lawsuit, not defend one. </p>

<p>State and local elections laws restrict the use of legal defense funds to only pay fees and costs associated with prosecutions or lawsuits filed against candidates or elected officials. </p>

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<p>One of San Diego’s largest health care providers was brought to its knees by computer hackers that have disrupted emergency rooms, patient care, and even employee work schedules.</p>

<p>Scripps Health system was hit on May 1st by malware presumably unknowingly downloaded by someone within their computer network, most likely through an infected email, and shut down the hospital systems computer networks.</p>

<p style="font-size:10px">Pictured: Conrad Prebys<br>Credit: Conrad Prebys Foundation</p>

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<p>A New York-based private equity fund has agreed to buy 66 apartment complexes in San Diego for more than $1 billion, making the group one of the top three landlords in the region.</p>

<p>Blackstone Partners, which already owns the Hotel del Coronado and Legoland, also owns more than 900 other apartment units in the county, and employs more than 5,500 people in the region.</p>

24-year old Angel Zapata Hernandez died here in San Diego when two transit security guards attempted to arrest him.

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<p>29 people emerged from a small boat that crashed onto the coast near the Cabrillo National Monument in Point Loma on Sunday, killing four of the occupants in what is believed to be a smuggling operation.</p>

<p>The 40-foot cabin cruiser was first spotted at around 10:30am on Sunday, May 2, as it crashed on the coastline and began to break apart. Although there is no official count of how many people were on board, a total of 29 were recovered, including four dead.</p>

Dos distritos de agua rurales en el norte del condado quieren dejar la Autoridad de Agua del Condado de San Diego y obligar a los residentes restantes a financiar los sistemas de suministro y tratamiento de la región.

Two rural water districts in North County want to leave the San Diego County Water Authority group of local water agencies and force the remaining water customers to finance the region’s delivery and treatment systems.